Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 1st Oct 2004 00:16 UTC
A senior IT executive at a major pharmaceutical company summed up the challenge for Linux at the ZDNet UK IT Priorities conference when he asked one simple question: what are the benefits in migrating from Microsoft to Linux at the desktop?
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I am not sure what the Canadian govt is doing but I know from my own experience in working with, and in, the US gov't is that you use 3 things. 1)Office Suite. Any will do the job. 2) email client; again, any will do. 3) The other programs we use were all java based, that way they were accessible to anyone and everyone. I even knew guys who logged into a remote Unix machine and ran their desktop from there. Sure there are some proprietary apps out there that only work in Windows. But for the rest. Linux will be cheaper.